Media centre

Network Rail has today published new and updated information on its online transparency portal.

Transparency is a key theme within Network Rail’s five-year strategic business plan. We believe that being more open and accessible will make Network Rail more accountable to the travelling public, taxpayers and politicians.

Sir Peter Hendy today published his review into Network Rail’s five-year funding programme to 2019. Sir Peter has concluded that the majority of the programme can go ahead as planned with extra investment generated primarily from the sale of non-core railway assets. 

Network Rail has transformed Britain’s busiest station into a multimedia art gallery, as London Waterloo plays host to the Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards exhibition from today until 7th February 2016.

A £30,000 reward is being offered for help catching an arsonist who caused widespread misery to train passengers across England and Scotland this week.

The Queen has officially reopened the transformed Birmingham New Street station.

Network Rail has today announced that it is halfway through the delivery of the £2.3bn investment programme to improve the existing railway for the Crossrail programme.

The vast majority of the rail network is up and running after Storm Barney swept across Britain on Tuesday, but scores of Network Rail’s orange army have worked throughout the night and into this morning to repair damage to overhead power lines caused by fallen trees.

New retail sales results from Network Rail’s managed stations revealed that 63.2 million people – almost equivalent to the entire UK population – visited a station retailer between July and September, pushing up sales by 4.47% compared to the same period last year.